Ocean Unit Study – Ocean Layers

It was another bitter sweet day. More of our furniture sold and was gone today. It’s so exciting because we are almost down to just what we are keeping, taking with us or need until the last few days before we move.

My beloved bookshelf left in pieces today and I know you can grieve with me on this one as the man pulled out of my driveway.

{bye, bye buffet}

My buffet was a heavy baby so I am kind of glad to get rid of it. It went to a nice new married couple who will have plenty of years storing their pretties in it.

We have one more lady coming this week and hopefully she will take the last bit that we have for sale.

Since Tiny was reading about the ocean layers in our atlas, we decided to keep it fun and make dessert before supper and learn at the same time while our furniture was being loaded up and hauled away. Besides, most all of these ingredients we had at the house and I needed something Tiny could do while we were dealing with people in our home.

Here is the short list of ingredients. We normally are not big eaters for packaged cookies because we prefer homemade, but we make an exception for Oreo cookies anytime.

Oreo cookies

Chocolate pudding

Banana cream pudding

cool whip

blue dye

To show the darkest part of the ocean or the trench, he put crumbled Oreo cookies at the very bottom of a large glass. Then, because we had chocolate pudding, he used that for the next layer which is the abyss layer.

Both of those ocean zones are dark and forbidding so I think his choices for yummy layers to help him remember those layers will stick!

I wished though we had a lighter shade of chocolate to show the separation a bit more clear, but I try to use things we have in the house already.

A little bit of blue dye with some whip cream was perfect for the midnight ocean layer. Though it’s still dark at this layer, a large amount of animals live there and produce their own light. In his mind, the blue color equates to finding more ocean life at this layer. I thought that was a good connection.

Next, we had banana cream for the twilight layer. It was a great color choice for this ocean zone because though the light gets here, it is still light or faint.

Of course the pudding has a heavier weight than the whip cream, so his ocean layers began to sink a bit.

But—uhmmm—it never bothered him!

Then, one more delicious layer for the bright white light or whip cream called sunlight and he got out of labeling a worksheet he can already name the ocean layers.

Ocean Unit Study – Ocean Layers

I think with all the mayhem we had in the house with our furniture leaving, this was a fun and easy way to learn the names of the ocean layers. Finding the right combinations of sweet treats that tasted good together just kind of fell into place on this activity. That sometimes is not so easy to do with edible activities.

Can you think of anything else to use in the house hands-on to illustrate this concept? I hope this sparked an idea or two for you too!

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